Chapter 144: Everyone Come Over, Count Me In (7/10, Autumn)

As far as Fang Yue knew, many players—even begged for connections just to get into the team.

After all, unlike Niu Niu and Wu Wu, those players' foundations were truly shallow.

Although they had stayed in Gu Yue Cun, every day they struggled on the Life and Death Line; every day the moment they opened their eyes, they had to think about where to earn today's lifespan, or else face the fate of dying from lifespan exhaustion.

Now knowing there was such an escort team that gave lifespan and let them visit other villages to see the scenery—who knows, there might be new opportunities—of course they were excited and wanted to sneak in.

But the escort team wasn't something just anyone could join.

First of all, one had to be useful to the escort team.

These refugees had low status, and the help they could provide the team was even more limited, so despite their efforts to beg for connections, they still couldn't get in.

On the contrary, Wu Wu and Niu Niu still needed Fang Yue to call them over—how blissfully ignorant they were!

While Fang Yue was grumbling, he saw An Shenyi leading seven or eight people walking toward the village gate; two of them were even carrying a big guy, just like a professional team carrying a coffin.

Immediately, Fang Yue was stunned.

In the morning sun, An Shenyi's expression looked quite pleased.

Although staying in Gu Yue Cun was quite comfortable, and he had earned a tiny bit of money, completing a small goal.

But after all, it wasn't his home, wasn't his Mo Cun.

And now the number of wounded in Gu Yue Cun was dropping sharply, income had plummeted, he could no longer stay at all—one could say he was desperate to return home.

"Yeye, good morning!"

An Shenyi clearly also spotted Fang Yue, and didn't forget to greet him.

But Fang Yue's gaze was fixed straight on the guys behind An Shenyi.

"Xiaomiao? Niu Niu?"

Fang Yue was a bit dumbfounded.

Behind An Shenyi, Chen Xiaomiao's face was swollen as if her whole family of wasp nests had been stabbed; the whole face was terrifying, almost deformed enough to be treated as something uncanny.

Seeing Fang Yue, Chen Xiaomiao glared over angrily.

"What are you looking at, never seen a beauty before! The most fashionable face shape in the village is exactly what I have right now!"

Fang Yue's face darkened.

Fine, fine, fine, just keep being stubborn.

Then he looked at Niu Niu.

At this moment, Niu Niu's eyes were blank, completely in an offline state, being carried by two professional team members.

"An Shenyi, this is…"

"Oh, he entered the refugee-specific soulless state, but he's my experimental subject—when I saved his life back then, we already agreed on this. Your Guard Team can't refuse to hand him over."

As he spoke, An Shenyi even frowned with a hint of threat, clearly afraid Fang Yue would snatch the person and keep Niu Niu behind.

But… how could that be!

Fang Yue couldn't even be happy enough.

Oh ho!

You're done for, Niu Niu!

Fang Yue wanted to howl; he'd been so busy getting Niu Niu to join the escort team that he'd completely forgotten about this.

Niu Niu was An Shenyi's private property!

Even if he didn't want to go with the Guard Team, he couldn't; once An Shenyi spoke up, could he refuse?

Heh heh! Niu Niu, going offline to escape is useless; this time it's not that your Ye Ge won't save you, it's that the debt you owe must be repaid.

"Yeye, I'm taking Niu Niu away, you have no objections, right?"

"Of course not! How could there be? Niu Niu's life was saved by An Shenyi, so naturally he's your man! The way of the world should be exactly so."

"Well said! I just like Yeye's straightforwardness; you guys move quickly, don't drop Niu Niu."

The latter sentence was directed at the two professional team members.

Fang Yue watched An Shenyi and the others leave, then returned to the Guard Station.

"Deputy Captain Ye, everything on my side is ready; now I need to assemble the personnel, barring accidents, we can set off in an hour."

The moment he entered the Guard Station, he saw Deputy Captain Luo Xin.

This time he didn't drone on like chanting sutras, stuffing escort team information into Fang Yue, which let Fang Yue breathe a sigh of relief.

He probably also saw that Fang Yue was hopeless, would slack off whenever possible, and absolutely wouldn't memorize all this messy information.

He gave Luo Xin a nod; Luo Xin went off to assemble the people; the final assembly point was the village entrance—the same direction An Shenyi had gone—An Shenyi couldn't wait and was already waiting there in advance.

"An hour, huh."

Fang Yue touched the 9g of Black Ember in his pocket, as well as that Silver stone, feeling a bit uneasy.

Although he'd long known this moment would come sooner or later, the imminent departure from the village into the wilds still made Fang Yue nervous.

Having a Guard Team member bring Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu over, Fang Yue opened his attributes.

"Name: Yese Liming."

"Realm: Postnatal Third-Rate."

"Status: Normal."

"HP: 200/200."

"Internal Force: 300/300."

"Control: 16.2 【Base: 36.2】 【Status/Buff: -20】."

"Release: 15.9 【Base: 35.9】 【Status/Buff: -20】."

"Talent: Night's Breath 【Human Grade Superior】."

"Skills: Analysis Pupil 【Human Grade Inferior】, Star Fire Blade Technique Lv. 1 【Postnatal Third-Rate】, Star Fire Heart Method Lv. 3 【Postnatal Third-Rate/Max Level】."

"Lifespan: 1 month, 14 days."

The daytime attributes were so weak that Fang Yue couldn't help feeling a little worried.

But fortunately, with five Deputy Captains present, and the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】 that the Blood Hunter personally said could fight low-level anomalies, as long as they didn't run into any powerful anomalies, they should be fine.

As for nighttime, Fang Yue declared — I just want to be beaten to death by anomalies, or beat anomalies to death!

Before long, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was brought over.

"Ye Ge..."

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu said in a crisp, clear voice — when the moment actually arrived, she was still a little scared.

"Mm, stay behind me."

This one was still more reliable than Niu Niu, so naturally he didn't pull such a shameless stunt as going offline to escape; otherwise Fang Yue could only follow An Shenyi's example and hire a few professional teams to carry her off.

As Fang Yue and Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu walked outward, Fang Yue noticed the villagers on the street all turning to look his way one after another.

"Deputy Captain Ye!"

"Deputy Captain Ye, be careful on the road!"

"Deputy Captain Ye, we'll wait for you to come back!"

"Deputy Captain Ye, when you go to Mo Cun, remember to bring back some Mo Wine — that stuff is really good to drink!"

Although many of the villagers' tones carried teasing, judging from their expressions, what showed more was worry.

They genuinely hoped that Fang Yue's group could be safe; after all, most of them hadn't had much contact with Fang Yue, didn't know what kind of person Fang Yue was, and only knew that Fang Yue was the one who saved the village on the night Di He shattered.

So-called distance creates beauty — thus their impression of Fang Yue remained stuck in a very wonderful concept.

Fang Yue smiled and responded to each one in turn, and soon saw some players brimming with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"Lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon!"

"Dammit! Why can't I sneak into the team? Just because I'm a toilet cleaner? Watch me eat some 'Oreo' and disgust them to death!"

"No! Big bro, I just had breakfast..."

"Sigh, I really envy Yese Liming — Deputy Captain again, respected by the villagers, simply boundless in glory."

(End of this chapter)